Francis Hume

Francis Hume (died February 1717) was a captain of the Royal Navy of Great Britain who was also a pirate hunter.

Biography
Francis Hume was born in Scotland, and he became a captain of Great Britain's Royal Navy. Hume was dispatched to hunt down pirates and escaped slaves alongside the British navy in the Caribbean, and in November 1716 he attempted to lure the pirate Samuel Bellamy into a trap by falsely informing him that an artifact was aboard the Spanish treasure fleet. At Los Martires, Hume nearly sunk the pirate ship of Alonso Batilla, but Olivier Levasseur and Bellamy held off the British and Spanish ships.

In January 1717, Bellamy captured Dutch merchant Laurens Prins' slave ship "Whydah", so Hume and his man-of-war HMS King George set out to recapture the ship. However, Edward Teach and his pirate ship "Queen Anne's Revenge" arrived and Hume's ship was sunk, killing him.